Blog 627 – 05.09.2017
I See Life In All Things

The second part of the first of The Ten Intentions For A Better World states: “I see life in all things and honor it as if it were my own.” I often wonder if God brought the animals one by one to Adam not to be named as Adam supposed (It is such a man thing to think we have to label everything – labels are so limiting) but for Adam to see himself in all creation as God did and does. In the beginning at least according to the creation story man’s sole responsibility was to be a companion for God and to be a Watchman really over the beautiful garden that had been created just for him. In the dream God split man into two parts, male and female, and that urge to merge has been with us ever since. I believe we all have a male and a feminine side. We are capable of understanding one another much better than we do if we do not deny that we have it in us to think like the other.

The great lesson of fulfilling our first role as watchers was, I think, to see ourselves in all of creation, as our Father/Mother does and to learn who we are in The Plan. Women like to say that God saved the very best for last and She/He did. What man who is thinking even with his tinier brain will not freely admit that women are prettier, fairer, and more gifted at seeing the best in most everyone and everything than most men are. We have that it us too, guys, we just don’t concentrate on developing those attributes as much as we prefer to to develop our muscles and our braun. No wonder we fall for the old lie so easily that might makes right. It does not it only makes a bigger mess that women usually are stuck cleaning up. I am thinking primarily of all the graves, and broken soldiers who come home from wars, many with deep wounds you cannot see on the outside, and all who weep and must care for the wounded and those graves.

To see ourself, in others, in all the animals, in the sunrises and sunset is to truly see ourselves as God’s companion – a role we were made to fill and He/She made no other provision. I wrote day before yesterday that it was quite a revelation to me to think that God really needs us, that there is an us shaped place in God’s heart that nothing and no one else can fill. That is what it means to be loved, not to be loved for your good looks, your tallents, or even your charming ways but because there is a place in your Lover’s heart that nobody else can fill. To be loved just because you are you. That is what let’s each one of us know who and whose we truly are.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White